February 21, 2022February 19, 2022Cairngorms, Hidden Fires, Uncategorized, Walking Ice and Running Water When the author Nan Shepherd was walking the Cairngorms in the 1940s, she once dedicated an entire day to studying the ice […]
December 6, 2021December 6, 2021Cairngorms, Uncategorized Following Nan Shepherd up Creag Dhubh Creag Dhubh is the first hill Scottish writer Nan Shepherd climbed on her journey into the Cairngorms, described in her book The […]
September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Novels, Of Stone and Sky, Scotland On the Trail of the Highland Shepherd We found the abandoned lamb at the edge of a field, bleating plaintively as it trotted towards us on wobbly legs, its […]
July 20, 2021July 20, 2021Cairngorms, Of Stone and Sky, Walking Of Reindeer and Rams Horns Setting off for an overnight climb and camp in the Cairngorms, our mountain guide friend, John, tucked a shepherd’s crook down the […]
June 21, 2021July 7, 2021Books, Cairngorms, Mountains, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized, Walking Stone and Sky on Angel’s Peak On this night, eight years ago, I started writing my novel, Of Stone and Sky. It was the summer solstice here in […]
April 26, 2021April 24, 2021Cairngorms, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized, Wildlife The Ospreys are Back! The ospreys are back! It’s that exciting time of year in the Cairngorms when some of our most iconic species return for […]
October 26, 2020October 24, 2020Cairngorms, Scotland, Uncategorized, Wildlife October in the Cairngorms “October is the coloured month,” Nan Shepherd wrote in The Living Mountain her now-celebrated account of her relationship with the Cairngorm range […]
October 14, 2020October 14, 2020Books, Cairngorms, Mountains, Novels, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized Two-Book Deal For Merryn Glover’s Cairngorms Friends and faithful readers of Writing the Way, I cannot tell you how happy I am to share this news with you. […]
September 28, 2020September 25, 2020Cairngorms, Wildlife Loch Insh Osprey The ospreys have gone. I went away for a week and when I got back, the strath had slipped into autumn and the eyrie above Loch Insh was empty.
August 24, 2020August 22, 2020Cairngorms, Uncategorized, Walking Loch Etchachan & Ben MacDui: A Cairngorms Photo Story Living by the Spey, most of my walks into the Cairngorms are from the north-western side, such as the one to Angel’s […]